Download or read book Harare North written by Brian Chikwava and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi. He ends up in Shingi's Brixton squat where the inhabitants function at various levels of desperation. Shingi struggles to find meaningful work and to meet the demands of his family back home; Tsitsi makes a living renting her baby out to women defrauding the Social Services. As our narrator struggles to make his way in 'Harare North', negotiating life outside the legal economy and battling with the weight of what he has left behind in strife-torn Zimbabwe, every expectation and preconception is turned on its head. This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide.
Download or read book COVID 19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare Zimbabwe written by Johannes Itai Bhanye and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on the welfare of the urban poor in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe. The authors look through the lenses of the urban health penalty, the right to the city, complexity theory, and distributive justice theory. These four theories help situate the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the urban poor in the theoretical foundations that raise issues of how the poor are affected by disease/health pandemics, due to their living conditions. Uniquely, the authors use remote ethnography tools such as rich texts, video diaries and photo uploads to provide evidence-based stories of how COVID-19 mobility restrictions have affected poor urbanites in Harare. The book concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic mandatory lockdowns have deepened social and spatial inequality among the urban poor, threatening their right to the city. The socio-economic impacts can upsurge poverty, increase unemployment and the risks of hunger and food insecurity, reinforce existing inequalities, and break social harmony in the cities, even past the COVID-19 pandemic period. These socioeconomic impacts must be considered to make just cities for all, from a right-to-the-city perspective. The authors recommend that mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns should not only be treated as a law-and-order operation but as a medical intervention to stem the spread of the virus backed by measures to safeguard the livelihoods of the urban poor while also protecting the economy. This means governments should provide social safety nets to informal sector operators whose income-generating activities are affected the most during the time of emergencies like COVID-19. Planners and policymakers should re-envision pandemic-resilient cities that are just, equitable, resilient, and sustainable.
Download or read book Options for Wastewater Management in Harare Zimbabwe written by Innocent Nhapi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sustainable management of waste water should aim at pollution prevention and reduction first, followed by resource recovery and reuse. This work shows that substantial water quality improvements could be achieved through a so-called 3-Step Stategic Approach. The frameworks developed in this research for managing water on-site and at centralized
Download or read book The State of Food Insecuritity in Harare Zimbabwe written by Tawodzera, Godfrey and published by Southern African Migration Programme. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harare is at the epicentre of the economic meltdown and political crisis that has devastated Zimbabwe over the last decade and led to a mass exodus from the country. Those who remained in Zimbabwe’s largest city and capital endured unprecedented hardship as the formal economy collapsed, unemployment soared and poverty deepened. Household surveys conducted in Harare with official sanction between 2003 and 2009 appear to demonstrate that food insecurity was not a particularly serious problem, a conclusion sharply at odds with reality. In 2008, at the height of the crisis, AFSUN therefore implemented its own baseline food security survey in Harare using a well-tested and reliable methodology. This paper presents and discusses the results of that survey and shows that Harare had become the most food insecure city in the SADC region by 2008. Levels of food insecurity were extraordinarily high as poor households struggled to find the income to purchase what little food was available in the shops and informal markets. The paper demonstrates that participation in the informal food economy was the major response to the crisis, providing poor households with a modicum of food and income. Urban agriculture for home consumption also grew in importance as a crisis response. While the political and economic situation in Zimbabwe has stabilised somewhat since 2008, the long-term impact of many years of enforced food insecurity on the city population is incalculable. This paper concludes with the recommendation that ongoing monitoring of the urban food security situation in Harare is essential in order to begin to develop national and municipal policies that could ensure a food secure future for the city.
Download or read book We Women Worked So Hard written by Terri Barnes and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book , The Author shows how African ideas of gender in colonial Zimbabwe centrally shaped oppositional responses well before the advent of formal political nationalism. The Author argues that, urban African women and men in colonial Harare constracted complex yet coherent identities and durable hopes for themselves in broad moments of gendered conflict and consensus.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Zimbabwe written by Barbara McCrea and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised guide to Zimbabwe covers the game reserves, national parks and wilderness areas. There is coverage of the rock art, literature, history and music, and a colour wildlife supplement. In Botswana, only the Okavanga Delta and Chobe National Park are covered.
Download or read book Environmental Resilience written by Percy Toriro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various chapters in the book demonstrate how urban populations in Zimbabwe and elsewhere have often devised ways to produce own food to supplement on their incomes. Food is produced largely by way of urban agriculture or imported from the countryside and sold in both formal and informal stores and stalls. The book shows how in spite of the important space food occupies in the lives of all city residents, the planning and regulatory framework does not facilitate the better performance of food systems.
Download or read book Zimbabwe a Country Study written by Harold D. Nelson and published by Claitor's Pub Division. This book was released on 1983 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Zimbabwe - covers history, geographical aspects, demographic aspects, ethnic factors, social change, religion, the economy, the industrial sector, the agricultural sector, international relations, government, politics, defence. Bibliography, graphs, maps, organigrams, photographs, statistical tables.
Download or read book Zimbabwe Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Zimbabwe Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook
Download or read book Zimbabwe Taxation Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Zimbabwe Taxation Laws and Regulations Handbook
Download or read book Zimbabwe Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Download or read book Zimbabwe Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe Business Law Handbook - Strategic Informtion and Basic Laws
Download or read book Zimbabwe s Fast Track Land Reform written by Prosper B. Matondi and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex. Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe’s agriculture and development. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.
Download or read book Zimbabwe Mineral Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Regulations written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe Mineral, Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide - Strategic Information and Regulations
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Download or read book African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe written by Tsuneo Yoshikuni and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 'Harare' replaced 'Salisbury' as Zimbabwe's capital city in 1982, the name belonged to the country's first black township, now called Mbare. How and when did the township come into being? In this pioneering study, Tsuneo Yoshikuni offers a fascinating social history of urban development in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Governing the Poor in Harare Zimbabwe written by Amin Y. Kamete and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the ‘terrain of urban governance’, using areas of Zimbabwe’s biggest city Harare as case studies. It presents and discusses sets of perceptions of poverty and the poor which influence policy development and decisionmaking among urban ‘governors’. Kamete shows the effects of positive as well as negative perceptions of the poor. He also problematizes more conventional understandings of poverty and includes into his own conceptual understanding dimensions of deficient access to participation and citizenship. He shows that the relationship between power and powerlessness among the poor is much more complex than is sometimes assumed.
